We take a look at the big bets the online bookmakers have taken on the weekends horse racing around the country with most of the big money being placed at Randwick, Moonee Valley and Doomben. Have Your Say 🗣: Which BIG BETS will be winning? Leave a comment below.
A strong nine race card has been assembled for Moonee Valley this Saturday. The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is in the true position for the entire circuit.
Spring has well and truly hit Randwick this Satuday with a start studded field set to take their place in the Group ll Missile Stakes (1200m), most notably Kementari. The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is out four metres for the entire circuit.
Lindsay Park’s Tom Dabernig expects Ennis Hill’s class to take her a long way in her return race at Moonee Valley despite the early season sprint being a stepping stone towards bigger targets. Ennis Hill was a Group Three winner as a juvenile, taking out the Chairman’s Stakes (1000m) at… Read More »
Talented sprinter Music Magnate holds a unique place in Bjorn Baker’s stable as the trainer’s first Group One winner in his own right. Baker has been associated with many other top-line performers when he worked with his father, champion New Zealand trainer Murray Baker. While Murray Baker has made his… Read More »
Pierata has made an instant impression on star jockey James McDonald who will ride the talented horse in a race for the first time in the Missile Stakes. McDonald rode the Greg Hickman-trained Pierata in a recent Warwick Farm barrier trial and was left suitably impressed ahead of the four-year-old’s… Read More »
Group Two winner Menari has suffered a career-threatening leg injury, ruling him out of the spring and the $13 million Everest. Trainer Gerald Ryan said the horse had run in a jump-out at Rosehill on Monday morning but was later found to have an injury to his near foreleg. Menari… Read More »
The Sydney spring carnival has been rebranded to Everest Carnival to highlight the importance of the world’s richest race on turf. The Australian Turf Club has announced the renaming of the six-week carnival which begins on September 8 and culminates in the $13 million Everest on October 13. The ATC… Read More »
Dual Caulfield Cup winning jockey Nick Hall has officially called it quits on his riding career after ongoing injury issues have kept him out of the saddle since early 2017. Nick Hall who has won the Caulfield Cup twice aboard Fawkner and Jameka as well as seven other Group 1’s… Read More »
International contenders for the Melbourne carnival spring have begun to arrive in Australia. Five Australian-owned Japanese imports and a Japanese-bred French horse to be trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott have began two weeks quarantine at Werribee ahead of joining their respective stables. Tosen Basil, Admire Robson and Cassius… Read More »
Kementari has been posted the $2 favourite in first markets on the Group Two Missile Stakes but Pierata’s trainer Greg Hickman believes there are a few things in favour of the second-elect. Pierata is at $4.50 to reverse his two seconds behind the Godolphin horse earlier this year after a… Read More »
Premier Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan will get a guide on the spring prospects of his rising three-year-olds Ef Troop and Outback Barbie when they run in barrier trials at Doomben. Gollan bypassed the Queensland winter carnival with the pair who were both stakes winners during their two-year-old seasons and are… Read More »
Sydney’s second favourite horse could run exclusively in Melbourne throughout the spring if he doesn’t gain a berth in The Everest. With only two slots remaining in October’s $13 million The Everest at Randwick, Happy Clapper has so far been overlooked. Trainer Pat Webster isn’t holding out much hope of… Read More »
The Aurie’s Star Handicap at Flemington will be the starting point for Group One winner I Am A Star who has been off the scene since last spring. The 2016 Myer Classic winner has not raced since finishing last in her defence of the Group One fillies and mares race… Read More »
Group 1 winning sprinter Vega Magic has secured what could be the last available slot in this years edition of The Everest. Vega Magic who was an ultra impressive winner of Saturday’s Bletchingly Stakes has been given James Harron Bloodstocks’ slot in The Everest on October 13th. The Group 1… Read More »
She Will Reign is set to make her new season return in a star-studded Missile Stakes at Rosehill with trainer Gary Portelli anticipating the dual Group One-winning sprinter can stretch out in distance this preparation. Saturday’s Group Two 1200m-race is expected to feature a host of Group One performers and Portelli… Read More »
Trainer Matt Dunn is hoping to have at least three runners in the rich Kosciuszko at Randwick on the support card for The Everest. Dunn has early favourite Care To Think who is at $4.60 with the TAB and $15 chance Snitz who are both confirmed as chasing a slot… Read More »
Chris Waller has celebrated his most successful season with four winners at Rosehill, including the final stakes race for 2017/18 with Mister Sea Wolf in the Winter Challenge. In the course of winning his eighth Sydney premiership, Waller has racked up a record 189 metropolitan winners, beating his previous standard… Read More »
Vega Magic has made a compelling case for one of the remaining slots into The Everest with a dominant return victory in the Bletchingly Stakes. Last year’s runner-up in the inaugural running of The Everest, Vega Magic has yet to attract the attention of slot-holders for this year’s $13 million… Read More »
Self Sense has tuned up for the Grand National Hurdle with a dominant win on the flat in the VOBIS Gold Stayers at Caulfield. Trainer David Brideoake had the option of a hurdle trial at Cranbourne on Friday or Saturday’s $150,000 flat race at Caulfield and elected for the latter…. Read More »
